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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Dark Souls 3 - A Comprehensive PVP Weapon Tier List by DamnNoHtml

Hey
guys, I saw that Japanese tier list a while ago and disagreed with some
of the choices on there, so I thought I'd make my own. Also, this
includes every melee weapon in the game. Obviously these are just my
opinions - not right, not wrong. I base my opinions off of fights at
SL120 with highly skilled players, not random duelists.

Tiers are the same as scaling in Dark Souls. S being the best, E
being the worst. Typically, a weapon in a tier higher than another will
have an easier time beating a player of equal skill using the lower tier
weapon. This is obviously not a golden rule.

Also note, the order things are listed in each class is not relevant,
as in I don't find the Washing Pole to necessarily be better or worse
than the Dark Sword.S tier - Weapons that are so good, you can reliably
beat absolutely anything you encounter in the game, even if they are
better than you. Mastering these weapons makes you an unfun nightmare to
fight against.

Estoc

Gotthard Twinswords

Carthus Curved Sword

A tier - Extremely useful weapons that either have
an excellent gimmick to them, or are typically the most damaging or most
efficient version of the weapon in its class.

Dark Sword

Washing Pole

Onikiri and Ubadachi

Rapier

Ricard's Rapier

Irithyll Rapier

Uchigatana

Chaos Blade

Longsword

Dragonslayer Spear

Gargoyle Flame Spear

Winged Knight Halberd

Black Knight Glaive

Glaive

Red Hilted Halberd

Lucerne

Gundyr's Halberd

Anri's Straight Sword (on a Quality hollow build only)

Sunlight Straight Sword

B tier - Mostly solid weapons that may not be the
best in their class, but can still easily take care of most players.
Often these are weapons with the same movesets as higher tier classes,
but with less range or damage, or they might be some of the best weapons
in classes that aren't as effective.

Storm Curved Sword

Broadsword

Shotel

Scimitar

Falchion

Pontiff Knight Curved Sword

Sellsword Twinblades

Warden Twinblades

Carthus Shotel

Astora Greatsword

Darkdrift

Bloodlust

Corvian Greatknife

Dragonslayer Swordspear

Immolation Tinder

Partizan

Halberd

Crescent Axe

Astora Straight Sword

Shortsword

Lothric Knight Sword

Barbed Straight Sword

Irithyll Straight Sword

Morion Blade

Claymore

Hollowslayer Greatsword

Moonlight Greatsword

Black Knight Sword

Thrall Axe

Drang Twinspears

C tier - Weapons here are generally still somewhat
decent, but start relying more on the opponent to make a mistake rather
than you outplaying them. Also here are weaker versions of higher tier
weapons in the same class.

Black Blade

Murakumo

Exile Greatsword

Old Wolf Curved Sword

Carthus Curved Greatsword

Crystal Sage's Rapier

Bastard Sword

Firelink Greatsword

Flamberge

Executioner's Greatword

Wolf Knight's Greatsword

Twin Prince's Greatsword

Battle Axe

Hand Axe

Brigand Axe

Dragonslayer's Axe

Butcher Knife

Man Serpent Hatchet

Great Machete

Yhorm's Great Machete

Black Knight Greataxe

Club

Mace

Morning Star

Drang Hammers

Reinforced Club

Warpick

Great Club

Claw

Arstor's Spear

Spear

Winged Spear

Four-Pronged Plow

Lothric Knight Long Spear

Great Corvian Scythe

Witch's Locks

Farron Greatsword

D-tier - These weapons either lack hyper armor,
speed, damage, range, or something else significant which makes them
fairly trivial against a good player. Most "Great Weapons" and Daggers
fall under this category. There are a few weapons in better classes that
are relegated here due to abysmal range or split / poor damage.

Zweihander

Greatsword

Fume Ultra Greatsword

Profaned Greatsword

Cathedral Knight Greatsword

Black Knight Greatsword

Lorian's Greatsword

Lothric Knight Greatsword

Crescent Moon Sword

Dancer's Enchanted Swords

Painting Guardian's Curved Sword

Rotten Ghru Curved Sword

Winged Knight Twinaxes

Eleonora

Greataxe

Dragonslayer Greataxe

Demon's Greataxe

Blacksmith Hammer

Heysel Pick

Gargoyle Flame Hammer

Great Mace

Large Club

Vordt's Great Hammer

Morne's Great Hammer

Smough's Great Hammer

Old King's Great Hammer

Pickaxe

Dragon Tooth

Spiked Mace

Demon's Fist

Caestus

Manikin Claws

Tailbone Spear

Pike

Greatlance

Great Scythe

Pontiff Knight Great Scythe

Whip

Notched Whip

Spotted Whip

Dagger

Parrying Dagger

Mail Breaker

Bandit's Knife

Rotten Ghru Dagger

Handmaid's Dagger

Tailbone Short Sword

Brigand Twindaggers

Harpe

Lothric's Holy Sword

Storm Ruler

E-tier - These weapons sort of make no sense why
they are so bad. A lot of them fall victim to split damage, or just
having simply less damage than similar weapons for absolutely no reason.
There is almost always an alternative, extremely similar weapon that is
better.

1 comment:

No... Just no... You got so much of this wrong. How is the fume ultra greatsword in "D tier". You put the corvian greatknive over the exile curved sword... What the actual fuck. Also, irithyll rapier and longsword are "A tier". No